1762Snug Masters, the duke is coming from the 1763temple, and there is two or three lords and ladies more 1764married. If our sport had gone forward, we had all been made 1765men.

1766Flute O sweet bully Bottom! Thus hath he lost 1767sixpence a day during his life. He could not have 'scaped 1768sixpence a day. And the duke had not given him sixpence 1769a day for playing Pyramus, I'll be hanged. He would have 1770deserved it. Sixpence a day in Pyramus, or nothing.

1779Bottom Not a word of me. All that I will tell you is, that 1780the duke hath dined. Get your apparel together, good 1781strings to your beards, new ribbons to your pumps, 1782meet presently at the palace, every man look o're his 1783part; for the short and the long is, our play is preferred! 1784In any case, let Thisby have clean linen, and let not him 1785that plays the lion pare his nails, for they shall hang 1786out for the lion's claws. And, most dear actors, eat 1787no onions, nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet 1788breath; and I do not doubt but to hear them say, it is a 1789sweet comedy. No more words. Away! go away!